I landed here after RIF stopped working on my device and followed RIF link. This will be my new place to find content and see aggregation. Here it is to the end of reddit that starts today! 🍻

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        Same and I agree that reddit pushing off all 3rd party apps was a bad decision. I keep automatically opening the app before remembering it’s not going to work. Gonna take some time to get used to just using lemmy

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          If you’re using a browser on your phone, you may be able to create an icon for getting into Lemmy directly and sticking it where RIF was.

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        Legit. I’ve only had positive interactions since being here. The last few years on rif positive interactions were becoming few and far between.

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    Another former RiF user here. Definitely miss the experience of using that app, and Lemmy is certainly new to me. Gonna take some getting used to but it will be interesting to hopefully see this place grow!

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      Going from RIF to Connect for Lemmy feels like a fever dream at times. Still can’t believe RIF is really gone. Anyway Lemmy seems cool, I’m liking it so far.

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        I’ll try connect tomorrow, but I just set up jerboa in android and it feels similar enough that I’m not upset

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      I am testing out Jerboa, got a similar feel but missing a few creature comforts. Seems the developer is really working to update and smooth the roughness in the last month so I’m optimistic long term. I’d give it a try!

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        Jerboa straight up won’t work for me (server version issue?). I figure I’ll just use the browser for a while and see what apps float to the top after the reddit exodus inspires more apps.

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      I’m using the wefwef.app for a bit today and I like it. Feels very close to RIF, yet you still are aware of the difference. One detail I like is auto-dark mode, and that comments and subsequent replies use colors to show thread height.

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      My experience,

      Summit is the closest. It feels the best to me. But it’s barebones and has some hiccups. I had a comment post 14 times this morning. I have high hopes for this one though.

      Connect seems the most stable and works well.

      Jerboa and Liftoff both work well when they’re working. But they’ve had some bugs and I prefer Connect to them at this point.

      My recommendation is to use Connect until you get Lemmy figured out. Then try them all out.

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      Former RIF user. I tried jeroba but then switched to Connect for Lemmy. Jeroba didn’t quite feel right to me. So far I’m enjoying the UI of Connect.

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        As another RIF user who tried Jerboa, I agree with what you said. But I’m just too lazy to try something else as this is still decent enough for me.
        I may look into Connect if I still feel unsatisfied with Jerboa.

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        Using connect and it has a very similar feel.

        I did a search for wepwep, but nothing showed up for me in Google play store?

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      I gave jerboa a soft try but wasn’t thrilled with it. Hoping sync will be a good option when that becomes available.

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    Tried the official app after 10 years of RIF and deleted it within minutes. Downloaded Connect and have been enjoying Lemmy a lot!Looks like I’ve joined the great migration!

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      Same boat here. The official app is so garbage I don’t even have the slightest desire to download it.

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    It’s a little disgusting, but completely in character, for Reddit to leech off those apps for over a decade and then stab them in the back.

    And by leech, I mean I question whether Reddit would have grown as much as it did without the 3rd-party apps. Hardly anyone uses Reddit desktop.

    … it’s probably a good thing that I don’t have Reddit on my phone now, to be honest, just wish it hadn’t happened this way.

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      I’ve heard a lot of people share the same sentiment - it’s actually a good thing that we don’t have access to reddit apps now. It was too addictive, took up too much of our time, and now we get to try new things.

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    I made a reddit account 7 years ago and used rif most of that time. It was the only thing keeping me on reddit because I was never satisfied with the official app. With rif gone, reddit will only be used as a means of finding answers to questions I search Google with. I hope that I won’t have to depend on reddit for long in that regard either.

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      That’s like the biggest net negative - how often do you Google your question with “Reddit” tagged in there to find real people answering your question?

      Biggest bummer is seeing people deleting their post history. Like, I get it, but also screwing with troubleshooting for years to come until Reddit slips into obscurity.

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        Someone is building a search engine for Lemmy. So if Lemmy ever somehow manages to get as popular as reddit, that search engine will be awesome.

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          We can also always count on Google indexing lemmy content and hopefully being able to add lemmy to search queries in the future for relevant content

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      yesterday i tried to append reddit to a search and noticed it didn’t work as well as usual. so that’s an interesting datapoint (to me).